Derbyshire Courier, 7 December 1918CRICH, LEA, & HOLLOWAYPrivate Austin Radford of Salmon House, Plaistow Green, returned home on Monday after about a year in the hands of the Germans.

Derbyshire Courier 1 April 1919
A welcome home tea and social were held on Saturday in the schoolroom at Wheatcroft to celebrate the homecoming of Private Austin Radford, Lincolns, who has been a prisoner in Germany since last March.